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TIL that the beastie boys dismantled their own golf record, only to find it didn’t contain their own music.

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grdBb TIL an infection model explains why spiral galaxies have spiral arms—the deaths of massive stars trigger star formation elsewhere (infection), while their vicinities recover due to the dispersed material; this propagation/recovery and the galaxy's rotation leads to the spiral structures
Br9Jb TIL that Logic’s song ‘1800-273-8255’ saved hundreds of lives because it is the number for the suicide prevention hotline, says study. After he performed the song in 2018 at the Grammys, suicide rates among 10-19 year olds dropped by 5.5 percent.
y0gl TIL in the 1989 season, Deion Sanders became the only person in the history of Earth to score a home run in the MLB in the same week as scoring a touchdown in the NFL. He is also the only person to have ever participated in both a World Series and the Super Bowl.
QNDEa TIL that a film version of "It Can't Happen Here" was passed on for being "anti-facist".
nYrY TIL Harris Rosen, a man that helped Disney launch The Contemporary and The Polynesian hotels was fired right after the projects because he wasn’t a “company man.” He went on to create a scholarship fund for his city with 11MM of his own funds. Crime rates have plummeted and graduation rates soared.